Lyrics
You found a single red thread snagged on the fence at Tolleston High.
Lake wind cuts clean through your Carhartt, you don't even ask why.
You just pull it loose, ball it up in your palm where the calluses are.
It's Tuesday, 9 p.m., beneath a cold taconite star.
[Chorus]
This is the knot and the nail, the weather side charm.
Keep your rust-colored gaze off my daughter's arm.
This is the breath on the glass, a prayer in the dust.
A covenant made with the rot and the rust.
[Verse 2]
Old man Gus down on Clark Road, before the blast furnace took him.
He watched you rocking her stroller, his expression was grim.
Said, "The Region's got an appetite, son, it remembers a name."
"Just don't ever let it hear you speak hers in the November rain."
[Chorus]
This is the knot and the nail, the weather side charm.
Keep your rust-colored gaze off my daughter's arm.
This is the breath on the glass, a prayer in the dust.
A covenant made with the rot and the rust.
[Bridge]
You can have the joists, you can have the roof, you can have my bones when I'm done.
But you measure her worth by a different sun.
[Chorus]
(Key change up)
It's the knot and the nail, the weather side charm.
You WILL keep your gaze off my daughter's arm.
It's my breath on the glass, my prayer in the dust.
A covenant made with the rot and the rust.
[Outro]
The freight train rumbles the frame.
You tie the red thread.
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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